Not a Halloween Costume: Washington Man Cuts Off Arm With Guillotine

TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-FRANCE HISTORY BY PAOLA MESSANA
A man looks at a guillotine on display at an exhibit of the Marquis de Lafayette 07 December, 2007 at the New York Historical Society in New York. The exhibit shows items about Lafayette who came to the Americas to join the fight for independence in 1777. AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)Police said a man cut off his own arm with an elaborate guillotine similar to this one. (credit: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

The guillotine unexpectedly dropped on his shoulder Thursday morning at a camp he was living at, severing his arm.

He left the arm behind after the accident and rushed to Bellingham Urology Specialists.

Evelyn Leuther, who works at the clinic, told CBS Seattle a woman passing by said, “I hope that’s a Halloween costume,” referring to the man missing his arm at the shoulder.

But the gore was real. Seconds later, another woman ran by screaming for someone to call 9-1-1.

Doctors and nurses from the office rushed to help.

“It was a sight,” she said. The scene lasted for 10 minutes before an ambulance took him to the hospital two blocks away.

Officers checked a wooded area near the clinic and discovered a camp believed to be the temporary home of the individual. At the camp, officers located the severed arm and a homemade guillotine, which the police then dismantled.

The condition of the victim is not known at this time, but Bellingham police said in a release he was being transferred to Harborview in Seattle for further treatment.

Didn’t Jake The Dog tell that joke to the pretty watergirl creatures on Adventure Time? They liked the joke so much that they took him to a party in the Cloud Kingdom. In other words, that joke’s lame and we’ve all heard it before.

What stumps me is what the difference is btw an “elaborate” guillotine (pic comments) and a more pedestrian model? And which version did the ‘victim’ actually build. I guess “homemade”, as per the copy, could be elaborate. I’m just so confused …..

That looks like punishment used for years by the judiciary. But they say when they are in positions of making decisions they are protected. Likewise when a House of Representative makes the same promise to constituents they are deemed as threats though by law protected activities. Is this a matter before the court as to if they have more authority than the legislature that created them and gave them the power to enforce constitutional rights not to take them.

Ok, really?
Has anyone given thought as to just why this chucklehead had to have his very own, fully functional (proven), decapitation kit? Anyone?
Well at least he was disarmed before he could harm anyone…

Well look on the bright side! His guillotine WORKED! He must be a pretty handy guy….ooops….not so much any more….I hope he didnt work as a handy man, but if he did I guess he could have a half off deal on his services now. I mean the ads write themselves….We are slashing our prices! Pay for one arm and the second one is free….from its socket that is.

Which brings up a great joke: “Six year old little Bobby was just about to put on his underoos when his attention drifted to his genitalia. Bobby asked, ‘Mommy? Are these my brains?’ Mommy replied: ‘Not yet, Son!’ ” bud-a-bump!

I have seen much chatter on the Left Wing blogs about how the OWS’ers either own or are building guillotines. Liberalism by nature is a mental disorder. Add there drug fueled insanity and their Mass Mental Illness and it comes as no surprise. Many of them talk about how they have them stored in their garages. Bring your guillotines. We’ll bring our arsenals and stock piles of ammo.

Last month a young lady in our family slipped in a repair shop, fell into a door on a cement mixer and cut off her right arm just below the elbow so losing a limb in any way IS NOT FUNNY! She was taken to Harbor View hospital, I think the same one this man was taken to, and her arm was sewed back on. So far, no rejection but it will take many more surgeries and 2 or 3 three more years to give her any use of the arm again. So, your jokes about someones misfortune is not appreciated – hope fully you will never have to live thru this kind of horror in your own family; if it happens to you you might not be so quick to laugh and make fun of someone! Shame!!!

But your situation was an true accident. This idiot was building a guillotine! You don’t “accidentally” cut off your arm up to the shoulder unless you’re being careless or just plain stupid! My guess is both because he had to have his arm purposly under the blade, which obviously he did not have properly restrained if he was working on it, in order for this to happen.

I feel bad for your family member and her accident, but I don’t feel bad for the stupidity of this guy!

STFU. How about asking about why some creepy homeless person trespassing and squatting deep in the woods has a squalid hidden encampment and an actual guillotine. If he grabs your child and runs them through his camp as an “experiment” then you won’t be such a stupid Liberal sap.

Seattle local news at 6: “In Bellingham today, a temporarily displaced citizen was cleaning his guillotine when it suddenly went off (snicker), which then severed the man’s arm at his shoulder (louder snicker). The man left his arm, (even louder snicker, joined by the bubble-headed blonde in the next chair) and immediately went to a urology clinic (laughter from the camera man). After ten minutes of the urologist running around trying to figure out what to do, (louder laughter from both anchors and the production crew), an ambulance arrived and took the man to the nearest hospital. Sheriff’s deputies, believing that no man could be so stupid as to put his own arm into a guillotine, combed the nearby woods looking for an armed robber (loud wailing from the entire set). They found the arm and the guillotine, but no robber. Sheriff Joe Johnson stated that today’s events were just another typical day in the woods. He then stated that if anyone has any information about this incident, to please keep it to themselves because they really would like something more important to do than to try to justify moronic behavior (total uncontrolled rolling laughter from the entire building). Film at Eleven”

So why did he have the thing up in the first place? And why was he at a “camp” in the woods? Does this mean he was homeless? Maybe he was thinking of offing himself and missed. Wouldn’t that be ironic. He should have found someone to lend a hand.

The lcoal news here is not even reporting it becase they lie, they want us to believe that these people are just little darlings… They will keep us in the dark in order to decieve to keep America divided for Obama!

Ya, this guy is kinda creepy… building a guillotene in the woods at some homeless camp? Wassup with that? A conspiracy to kill all of us that have homes so they can move into them? Jeez! I scared myself! LOL!

What is up with not managing to pick up his arm before he ran off? I guess out of sight, out of mind? This is too weird!

It may be a good thing though this guy cut off his arm, I mean think about it, the guy lived in the woods next to the clinic and built a freaking guillotine at his camp site? I cant imagine it having a positive purpose. Its entirely possible someone retains their head this night because the fool hacked his arm off instead.

The police should collect any and all blood found on the blade and surrounding components and do DNA testing to see who ELSE may have been a victim of this thing. My first thought, though, was that he was using it to torture animals. Anyway, laughed my _ss off at most of the comments!

This is absolutely, without a doubt, the WORST written story I have ever read. How in the world did any editor ever approve this? The grammar makes my eyes bleed. Please tell me this isn’t typical of news outlets in Seattle?

Tent? Check
Sleeping bag? Check
Ax? No need I got something much better. This baby will cut through logs just like butter – Let me show you…Now I just put this log in the …oops That’s gonna leave a mark.

Pity. The Dove Crowd lost ground in their quest for a safer world. The poor man was the sharpest negotiator in the Arms Limitation Treaty. He was trying to have a head START in winning a divisive argument. His Body of logic could not overcome the secession of the Arms proponents.

Dear idiot reporter. Proper English is: “… Thursday morning at the camp where he was living”. It’s NOT: “at a camp he was living at”. YOU DO NOT END A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION!!!! How does someone who sounds like a high school dropout get a job as a writer?!!!!

Homeless transient living in a camp and his only worldly material possession was a functioning guillotine? I am thinking this guy had some serious dark plans but thankfully those plans were thwarted by this accident or by fate.

Revelation 20:4
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been BEHEADED for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

1. We know that OWS is a mob of mentally ill people. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

2. We know that the Left thinks it is going to have a violent revolution and that many of them are building guillotines.

3. They are actually dumb enough and drug-stupified enough to think it’s all going to work and that they won’t be destroyed by the military, police and Patriot Milita in this nation that numbers in the tens of millions.

I think all of the “comedy” is very lame and uncalled for as well. It sounds like this man was basically homeless. He had to run to the nearest doctor which happened to be a Urologist. They may have saved his life by getting him stable before he was taken to the hospital. On top of his bad luck, the police go to the site, find his arm and dismantle the guillotine instead of taking the arm to the hospital. The man is definitely down on his luck and does not deserve the excrement pouring from people’s minds and onto this website.

its crazy how most people have lost respect for common sense,weather its atv motor sports,or even skate boarding.you will get hurt.remember there is a power greater than you and I and consequence is not far behind.

I don’t see why everyone is upset about some guy out in the forest playing with his own guillotine. I mean, if he can afford it then that’s fine with me. I checked out guillotines on Amazon, those things will cost you an arm and a leg!

Ok, so you’ve got this ? homeless guy living in a camp? what, an empty space in the woods somewhere? what the heck was he going to do with a homemade guillotine? Kill animals, kill people with it, behead kids maybe? Halloween coming, ?human sacrifice, serial killer, sick twisted freak? or was he going to use it to cut logs up? not likely, sounds like this guy is some kind of monster, good thing he hurt himself with the damned thing before he could use it on someone or something else,

All jokes aside, go ahead. I dare you. Study the Left Wing blogs. They are all connected with OWS and they are all talking about violent revolution and how many on the Left own guillotines. I believe it’s connected. In their drug fueled fantasy world, the Left thinks it is going to have it’s own little “French Revolution”.

Did no one think to ask what he planned to DO with the device? What does it say about his intent if he ran to a UROLOGY office after the mishap? I doubt if he planned to behead chickens or slice apples with the contraption!

All jokes aside, go ahead. I dare you. Study the Left Wing blogs. They are all connected with OWS and they are all talking about violent revolution and how many on the Left own guillotines. I believe it’s connected. In their drug fueled fantasy world, the Left thinks it is going to have it’s own little “French Revolution”.

all witty comments aside- think about it. this man was homeless, unemployed…… you think he could have done it on purpose to get disability. especially being 2 blocks from a hospital. coincidence? maybe not so accidental after all. it is a very underhanded way to get money though.

Anyone who can build a tree house, a table or a shed can build a guillotine for a few hundred dollars. It’s not that hard. The hardest part is cutting out the blade but that can be done a variety of ways with metal cutting blades or a torch. A machete can be adapted as the blade.

On the other hand, building a modern firearm or even a Kentucky Rifle take advance machinist tools and skills. You cannot build a single modern firearm cost effectively. It requires mass production and industrial scale.

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